Doug_N

3 hours ago, parkwest said:

Exactly!  And it only takes a few minutes to generate...

I had a guy who wanted to put an addition on the back of his house and he told me the lot was flat.  The lot actually sloped up about 2 feets.

Perhaps tilted in his mind is flat, just not level flat.  I have had owners tell me that too.  

17 hours ago, Cadwork22 said:

I tried auto rebuilding the roof, it wasn't working and was throwing off the roof plan in the main building, I need to manually create a hip roof for a separate mech building if possible.

 

Thanks as always for your help.

With problems like this, the best way to get meaningful help is to post the plan file.  

On 6/20/2024 at 1:12 PM, ericepv said:

I need to import terrain data into Chief but the only thing my client can provide is a PDF which does me no good. I know I could trace elevation lines over the PDF but that would be very tedious and time consuming. A contour map is available from the county GIS site in several formats (CSV,KML, Shapefile, GeoJSON) but no DWG or DXF. I did download the CSV file and tried to bring it to Chief using 'Import Terrain Assistant'  (the only one of these Chief will accept) but because the data is not in an x, y, z format, it didn't work. I'm open to suggestions.

- Eric

I think your only option if you can't get the DWG file is to trace the contour lines.  I have done that a few times, and it works pretty well.  Try just the major lines and then if need adjust with a few "in between lines"  Fortunately CA supports spline contour lines.   Once you have the lines traced you can adjust the curves between points with the advanced spline option.

Hi Jim,

I did some experimenting with the footings, even moving them to a different layer, but no joy.  Unless the footings are removed, there isn't any way that I can see that will turn off the footings in the schedule view.

Your second question though about pony walls, bingo, there is an answer

This look is achieved by setting the railing walls to invisible and offsetting from the foundation walls by 1" (This is done in the wall DBX for the railing.

The stairs have no stringers, no tread overhang and no thickness.

The risers are closed and set to closed underneath.  Then copy and paste concrete colour to the tread risers and walls under the stringers.

Now that is a very creative way to use a roof plane and skylights.

If you post the plan I will take a look at it.

I have a projector that fits inside my laptop bag for visits to my client's house.  Any wall will do so long as it is a light colour.

I think you have the makings of a suggestion there.  I have thought the same thing many times, and often just off temp dims until I need them for something.

14 hours ago, Ryan-M said:

In my recent benchmarking, a desktop 4070 was about twice as fast as a desktop 3070, and a desktop 4090 was about 2.2x faster than the 4070.  This was tested in a specific plan at a specific resolution so results may vary a bit, but in general I would say that a 40-series is a significant improvement over the 30-series.

Thanks Ryan

4 hours ago, Larry_Sweeney said:

As the title says. Has anyone that had projects started in X15 moved them to X16 Beta and finished them? Did you come across any "issues"? I have a couple of projects I'm doing in X15 and I'm hesitant to bring them into X16 for completion.  I'm thinking I should wait for the "non-Beta" version to come out. Advice?

Hi Larry,

There are some subtle differences (and a couple not so subtle) when moving up to X-16, but the benefits are really worth it.  The leader for dimensions is one of them that is a real time saver.  I had a few problems with crashes early on, but nothing since the last update.  All of my production work is now in X-16.  I say go for it!!!

1 hour ago, Cadwork22 said:

Thanks, would you use a slab to create the shape?

A slab or a 3d solid.  Either will work.  

7 hours ago, Cadwork22 said:

Is it possible in chief to create stone footing like the picture attached?  Thanks in advance.

 

Michael

I think you mean the column base or pedestal, not a footing.

You can create your own by choosing a suitable column and then creating a solid shape under the column (or in this case, set of columns) and then painting the stone surface on the solid.

Post the plan.  

I removed a few walls that were in the way, and made the area between the landing floor and main floor open to below.  The stair widths are adjusted to be 1/2 the distance between walls either side of the lading walls, minus 4 1/2"  The upper stair railing is generated with a railing wall.

Split Level Entrance r6.zip

2 hours ago, JKEdmo said:

Hello,

 

I'm trying to get two window openings to form at a deep double wall.

 

In red below:

 

 

I previously defined the fat furred out wall that the windows sit in as one wall definition.  However, that created a wall cleanup issue as the wall turned the corner plan right near the 1'-0" dimension.

 

Jim

 

 

Hi Jim,

Try this out.  Take a look at the wall definitions.

Doug

Double wall.plan

12 hours ago, RL-inc said:

In my experience, while certain individual areas can be manipulated, I find I get a much more consistent model generation if my structure defaults for any given project are accurate before I get started.

 

Just my opinion I guess 

And that is a very good opinion!  

The big problem with all of this work arounds is that all parametric parameters are lost

18 hours ago, RL-inc said:

 

IMO, if you take the time to set up your model parameters correctly, the model, and all of its components, will usually be generated accurately

 

Not for foundation and floor above walls for split level designs

This better?

Split Level Entrance r2.zip

Just a suggestion, but if you do the stairs in wood first, it is easy to adjust run and rise, create a section, then cad detail from view. Use that to generate the concrete stairs from a solid. I have requested a concrete stair tool with CA several times, along with the features of the stairs like the reverse slope of the risers.  So far, just crickets in response.  Keep your fingers crossed so that one day, CA will have concrete stairs.

Concrete steps are just wooden steps with closed risers, elimination of the tread overhang and risers.  The material can be changed with an eye dropper, or in the material section of the stair dialogue box.

Split Level Entrance.zip

Your uploaded file seems not to contain any information.  

Thanks for posting this Gene!